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Benefits
Trends in Employee Benefits: What's Hot, What's Not
The highest priority for employer provided benefits programs should be to protect the employee from significant financial hardship due to illness, disability, or death. A recent study listed the top five HR concerns of employers and employees.
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Compensation
How to Really Pay for Performance: Something to Show your CEO?
Many organizations have the intent to pay for performance-but the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it is often huge. However every HR pro universally believes that paying for performance was a
critical priority for the organization, writes Pat Zingheim and Jay Schuster.
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Human Resources Management
Thought Leader: Dr. Brad Smart on "Topgrading"
HR.com's CEO, Debbie McGrath, recently spoke to Dr. Bradford D. Smart to define what Topgrading is, and how the cost of not having A players could be detrimental to your business and having only A players could be a significant competitive advantage.
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Labor Relations
Thought Leader: Dr. David Sirota on "The Truth About Motivating Your
Workforce"
Dr. David Sirota is an industrial psychologist with an established international reputation for improving the performance of individual
executives, senior management teams, and total organizations. He recently spoke with HR.com's Leadership analyst Karen Elmhirst on motivating the workforce.
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Legal
If Injury Goes Beyond Insult: Defining Workplace Retaliation
In April the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of an employer accused of retaliating against a worker who complained of discrimination. Lyle Denniston reports on Veritude´s Workforce Insights how the court is expected to clarify the standard of proof for retaliation.
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Organizational Development
Why HR Still Isn't Seated at the "Executive Table"
Strategic HR, Increased Business Acumen, ROI Metrics, and still, HR is stuck in the HR Department. Here's the insight every HR Vice President has been looking for...from Perceptyx.
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Performance Management
Reality HR: Ken Barry, SVP Human Resources, Homestore Inc. on Getting Rid of Performance Appraisals
HR.com's Performance Management analyst, Aileen MacMillan, recently spoke with Ken Barry, the senior vice president of human resources for Homestore Inc.d/b/a Move about the question, Is it possible to get rid of performance appraisals? Ken says,You bet!
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Executive Coaching
Ask the Coach - Issue 7: Is There Still a "Glass Ceiling"?
There have certainly been many changes in the workplace for women since the term "glass ceiling" was coined in the 1980s. This issue of Ask the Coach offers findings from a recently released survey on the subject from Executive Coach Merry Marcus.
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Leadership
Thought Leader: Patrick Lencioni on How to Deal With Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars That Can Turn Colleagues into Competitors
Patrick Lencioni is the Founder and President of The Table Group Inc., a specialized management consulting firm focused on organizational health. He recently spoke with Rich DiGeorgio on the problems you see caused by silos and turf wars in organizations.
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HR Measurements and Metrics
Self Service Web Surveys, A Do-It-Yourself Guide
Do-it-yourself projects can sometimes become more costly and time consuming than working with a trained professional in the first place. David Youssefnia has some practical advice.
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Staffing and Recruitment
Thought Leaders: Dr Charlotte Shelton on 'What Gen X Women Want at Work'
Dr. Charlotte Shelton is a boomer mother, an author, a management professor, a coach and a consultant. She is the co-author of "The NeXt Revolution: What Gen X Women Want at Work". She recently spoke with
Rich DiGeorgio on her new book and her work.
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Workforce Acquisition
Don't Recruit The Best People -- Attract Them
Smart leaders don't recruit the best people, they attract them. Why do they do it? They do it because it makes their lives easier, and their companies more successful. How do they do it? They have a clearly defined corporate Purpose For Existing, writes John P. Strelecky.
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HR Outsourcing
HR Is a Key Player for Disaster Preparedness
For major corporations with workers spread across the United States, big cities are the nodes on a network of opportunity and, occasionally, danger. So, the price for a company´s access to business opportunity is the need to plan for disasters of many kinds, writes John Rossheim.
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HRIS/ERP
World of Pain or Golden Opportunity? Building the Right Framework for HRIS Implementations
Whether you are a Project Manager or an HR Executive providing direction, and whether you are putting in place a payroll system, Employee Portal or recruitment system, what can you do to ensure that
the odds of success are stacked in your favour?
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Training and Development
Training Doesn't Work: It's Time We Ask the Right Question
The corporate intelligence business has a great void of definition for
the term "Organizational Learning," writes Nathan Greeno.
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Understanding Mandatory Compliance Training: The Fundamentals that Impact All Employees
While workplace compliance training is a hot topic for learning, HR, and legal professionals, there is a great deal of confusion about mandatory training requirements. For example, what must employers provide to employees, regardless of their size or industry? What are the best practices to ensure a successful compliance training effort? This presentation will focus on the critical topics of ethics and code of conduct training, as well as harassment and discrimination prevention.
Date: January 17, 2007
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Presenter: Shanti Atkins, ELT
How to Attract & Retain Top Talent
Today approximately 60% of your employees are considering leaving your organization. What are you doing for your organization to prepare yourself and your firm for the War for Talent. Join Industry Experts Bill Larkin (VP of HRM Solutions at Kronos Incorporated) and Debbie McGrath (CEO of HR.com) in this informative 1 hour webcast and learn some of the more innovative best practices that today's leading organizations are using to combat the War for Talent. Whether you are
Circque de Soleil or a F1000's employer, this session will give you some of the top tips on how to retain, engage and recruit top players to your organization.
Date: January 18, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Debbie McGrath, HR.com | Bill Larkin, Kronos Incorporated
Workforce Scheduling: The Driving Force in Workforce Management
You've maximized efficiency from the back office and supply chain. You've automated the foundational aspects of payroll and HR tasks. You're ready to take the next step to help your company meet its growth objectives. Introducing workforce management.
Date: January 23, 2007
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Presenters: Jason Averbook, Knowledge Infusion | Joe Thomas, ADP, Time and Labor Management Services
Next week's Thought Leaders Live Webcast:
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Do Leadership and Culture Really Impact the Bottom Line?
On average, only three out of ten strategic change initiatives produce their intended value. Companies that invest in increasing their strength of their leadership and adaptability of their culture outperform those that don’t. Come hear the results of a recent study that determined just how much.
Date: January 8, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Karen Elmhirst, HR.com | Richard Roi, Right Management
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Summary
How is it that Paul Revere´s ride is heralded to this day, while the endeavors of William Dawes, who also rode at the very same time to warn of the British, barely rate a footnote in history? How is it that Hush Puppies, the classic American suede shoe, went from sales of only 30,000 pairs in 1994 to 430,000 in 1995, and a record 1,720,000 in 1996?
And, why, between 1992 and 1997, did murders in New York City decline by 64.3 percent and total crimes by almost half?
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